User:Vipul/Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements

Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) is a program managed by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that facilitates lookups on the immigrantion and nationality status of individuals. It is an intergovernmental initiative designed to help federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, or by a contractor acting on the agency's behalf, to determine eligibility for benefits, licenses or grants, government credentials, or to conduct background investigations. It is one of two programs that uses the Verification Information System (VIS). The other program is the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program, also known as e-verify.

Permissible uses and users

SAVE can be used by agencies of governments at any level in the United States, including:

• The federal government
• State governments
• Local governments (such as city and county governments)
• Tribal governments

A given agency is seligible to use SAVE only if determining the immigration and nationality status of individual is necessary for its work of one of these types:

1. Determination of eligibility for a federal, state, or local public benefit
2. Issuing a license or grant
3. Issuing a government credential
4. Conducting a background investigation
5. Any other lawful purpose

SAVE does not itself make determinations regarding the applicant's eligibility for a benefit or license. Rather, it simply provides an easy way to pull information about the benefit or license applicant from a variety of government databases. As discussed later, the absence of matching records in SAVE does not imply that the applicant

In addition to these, any contractor of an agency of the above description is eligible to use SAVE if the task contracted out to them requires immigration and nationality lookups for one of the above reasons.